Letter to the Editor: Campaign signs have gone missing
Monday, July 11, 2011
To the Editor:
Here we go again.
As a proud supporter of several local LFP candidates currently running for office, I volunteered to help place campaign signs in my neighborhood. On Saturday afternoon, I placed five signs. On Sunday morning, four of them had already been removed.
Come on people!!!
During the Prop 1 election, the same thing happened, and many of the signs supporting Prop 1 mysteriously disappeared. I presume the same people are now removing the new signs.
Do the supporters of opposing candidates really fear honest and fair campaigning so much that they must stoop to this type of activity?
I am personally offended. You are denying me and the candidates I support our right to freedom of speech and expression.
Removing another’s campaign signs is not only childish and mean spirited, it is expensive and illegal, and serves only to divide a once-friendly community.
Please stop.
Allow us to exercise our treasured American right to a fair and open political process with both sides able to speak and express ideas openly.
I ask all local candidates to tell their supporters to cease and desist, and to encourage an open and friendly campaign.
Leave the signs alone!
Thank you,
George Piano
Lake Forest Park
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5 comments:
Both sides in political campaigns always lose signs due to theft, but one side always likes to cast themselves as if they are the only victim.
George,
What a tangled web we weave... Isn't it interesting that when your fellow supporters of Prop 1 found themselves behind in the sign game, the local Teamsters (the largest supporter of Prop 1 at $1000) at DOT managed to remove and throw away nearly 60 NO signs and the few Yes signs that they removed "just happened" to be neatly stacked ready for Mark Phillips to pick up?
I would suggest that you look to your own camp about questions of ethics on political signs.
I think LFP has a sign ordinance that prohibits signs?
I think what is being missed is that it isn't either side "stealing them" usually. I think the real culprit is the "landscaping crews" that are hired as independent contractors by cities to cut grass in the ROW. The signs are just in the way to these workers who care little about the internal politics in any city and just pick them up to cut the grass and tidy up things.
There are always mistakes and misunderstandings and signs lost to misplacement. But I think this is the answer.
Really George, neither LFP GOVWATCH nor the NoProp1 group condones sign vandalism.
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